| commit | a060705d94461fdaa9512217d584bcb7fe3a109a | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Oct 17 20:08:51 2023 -0700 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Oct 17 22:09:54 2023 -0700 |
| tree | 61b8ed691e1101ce6c1aee246151cee4025756f5 | |
| parent | 0d1bd1dfb37ef25e1911777c94129fc769ffec38 [diff] |
commit: do not use cryptic "new_index" in end-user facing messages These error messages say "new_index" as if that spelling has some significance to the end users (e.g. the file "$GIT_DIR/new_index" has some issues), but that is not the case at all. The i18n folks were made to include the word literally in the translated messages, which was not a good idea at all. Spell it "new index", as we are just telling the users that we failed to create a new index file. The term is expected to be translated to the end-users' languages, not left as if it were a literal file name. This dates all the way back to the first re-implemenation of "git commit" command in C (the scripted version did not have such wording in its error messages), in f5bbc322 (Port git commit to C., 2007-11-08). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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